What happens
Henry Hutton, an employee at the investment firm Rogers and Bowman, secretly takes bonds from the safe to cover his losses on the stock market. When his aunt, Ida Hutton, learns of the missing bonds, Henry tries to win over a wealthy woman, Lisa Morel, to solve his money problems. After Lisa vanishes, Henry must find another answer to keep his aunt from exposing him. This episode of The Whistler, the Signal Oil radio mystery, first aired on June 11, 1950.
Los Angeles area, California, in 1950, including the offices of Rogers and Bowman, Ida Hutton's home, and Lisa Morel's house in Northridge.
Characters: Henry Hutton, Ida Hutton, Charlie Rockwell, Lisa Morel, Mrs. Martin, Fred Rogers, Sedgely, Lieutenant Ames
Listen for: Listen for Henry's conversations with his aunt Ida about the stock and the missing bonds, and for the detail of the electric clock that the lieutenant uses later in the episode.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.